Otto Taubmann

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Otto Taubmann, 1905.

Otto Taubmann (born March 8, 1859 in Hamburg , † July 4, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

Taubmann was initially a businessman, studied piano, cello and composition in Dresden from 1879 to 1882 and made study trips to Paris and Vienna. He worked as a conductor for several years and was the owner of the Freudenberg Conservatory in Wiesbaden from 1886 to 1889 . From 1895 he lived in Berlin, initially as a theory teacher and music critic (including for the Berliner Börsen-Courier ) and from 1920–1925 worked as a composition teacher at the State University of Music .

Otto Taubmann had been a member of the music section of the Prussian Academy of the Arts since 1917 . Among his students at the academy were Ludwig Roselius and Walter Draeger .

In addition to songs and choral works, Taubmann's compositional work also includes sacred and incidental music. In addition to psalm settings and the choral drama Singer Consecration, published in 1904, based on a libretto by Christian von Ehrenfels , the opera Porzia based on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was premiered in 1916 . Another opera, entitled The Abused Love Letters , remained a fragment.

In addition to his own compositions, Taubmann published a large number of arrangements of pieces by other composers, including Heinrich Schütz , Richard Strauss , Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák . In a letter to the publisher, the otherwise very critical Sibelius called the arrangement of his Romance in C op. 42 , composed in 1909 and re-published in 2007, “Excellent”.

Occasionally Taubmann used the pseudonym Nambuat .

Otto Taubmann found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Compositions (selection)

  • String quartet in A minor , 1890
  • A German mass for solos, choir, orchestra and organ, 1899
  • Singer consecration , choral drama, first performance November 25, 1904 in Elberfeld
  • And I saw song, op.26
  • Thaw , choral work
  • Struggle and Peace , cantata
  • Porzia , Opera, world premiere November 15, 1916 in Frankfurt / Main
  • Sang to home , symphony
  • The misused love letters , opera fragments based on Gottfried Keller

literature

  • Fabian Kolb: In: Music in the past and present. Personal section in 17 volumes. Volume 13
  • Franz Stieger: Opernlexikon, Part II: Composers, Tutzing 1977

Web links

Entry at Klassika (with photo)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Altmann: Briefly summarized Tonkünstler-Lexikon. Reprint of the 1936 edition. Wilhelmshaven 1971, p. 624
  2. ↑ cf. Berliner Leben magazine , issue 10 (1905), p. 13.
  3. ↑ cf. Sibelius, Jean: Romance in C op.42, preface to the republication, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 2007
  4. ↑ Information at Operone.de ( Memento from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Taubmann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nambuat (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1929
Place of death Berlin